Maxie (1985)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.2/10   

Director:

Paul Aaron

Escritores:

Jack Finney (novel)
Patricia Resnick (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 septiembre 1985 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Plot:

When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells...

Plot Keywords:

Audition | Ghost | San Francisco | Charleston | Cocky

Premios:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

What more could you want from a movie?

Reparto

Glenn Close	...	Jan / Maxie
Mandy Patinkin	...	Nick
Ruth Gordon	...	Mrs. Lavin
Barnard Hughes	...	Bishop Campbell
Valerie Curtin	...	Miss Sheffer
Googy Gress	...	Father Jerome
Michael Ensign	...	Cleopatra Director
Michael Laskin	...	Commercial Director
Lou Cutell	...	Art Isenberg
Nelson Welch	...	Bartender
Leeza Gibbons	...	E.T. Reporter
Evan White	...	Channel 4 Announcer
Harry Wong	...	Mr. Chu
Charles Douglas Laird	...	Policeman
David Sosna	...	Assistant Director

También conocida como:

Free Spirit

Duración:

98 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Finland:K-10 | Sweden:Btl | USA:PG | West Germany:6 (f)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Elsboy Entertainment

Trivialidades:

The name of the silent screen actress and ghost in Jack Finney's original novel Marion's Wall was Marion Marsh.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Invasion of the Body Snatchers... An Interview with Kevin McCarthy (1985) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

FREE SPIRIT

What more could you want from a movie?

There is a gentleness to this movie, a lack of meanness, anger, angst or aggression, that automatically alienates the majority of moviegoers too obsessed with violence and noise to appreciate things like dialog, tone and mood.

Mandy Patinkin, a national treasure better known for his work on Broadway than in film, appears as a rare book librarian whose wife, Jan, (Glenn Close) becomes possessed by Maxie Malone, 1920's firebrand whose untimely death ended her movie career before it began. Close is adorable in quite different ways as both Jan and Maxie, although in the end, you really wish Maxie could get more face time.

Alas, the living couple decide their spectral third wheel must go, and even though she does win a part that proves she would have been a star, she agrees to take a powder.

Patinkin and Close create characters about whom we care and in whose lives we can take an interest. Ruth Gordon, who passed away shortly after filming, is hilarious, endearing, and a bit sad, as Trudie, Maxie's flapper friend who survived her friend to become an eccentric old woman. In fact, there is a thread of melancholy that runs through the film, but in the end, it leaves you feeling uplifted and optimistic. That in itself makes this movie a treasure.

There is a side-splitting audition scene with Maxie and Harry Hamlin in a cameo playing himself. Barnard Hughes is Maxie's boss, a Bishop who feels an exorcism is in order to banish the freewheeling Maxie. There's even an uncredited appearance by Carole Lombard as the young Maxie in a silent film clip.

I don't know what it is about this movie that is so beautiful. It's hard to describe. But it may be the complete lack of the ugliness that pollutes most movies these days. Every time I watch Maxie, I come away feeling refreshed and renewed. What more could you want from a movie?